Maybe tomorrow morning

[vakkotaur]

I got up early (3:15 AM CDT) to watch the Perseids. The sky was clear and even though I'm in town it was dark enough that I could see M31 (the Andromeda galaxy) with the naked eye (or could if I didn't need glasses). This morning is not the real peak of the Perseids. That's tomorrow morning. But this morning was close and had good weather. I watched the sky for over half an hour, and I did see a few meteors, and some of them were Perseids. Some were not, as was they were not traveling away from Perseus. But the overall rate was rather low, even allowing for my only being able to view part of the sky.

I'll probably try again tonight or tomorrow morning, but the weather forecast suggests that I will likely not have clear skies.